{"id":630709,"date":"2026-02-28T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/630709\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:00:27","slug":"nba-monitoring-lauri-markkanens-mri-but-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/630709\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA monitoring Lauri Markkanen’s MRI, but there’s a catch"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Utah Jazz star Lauri Markkanen suffered an injury<\/a> in Wednesday’s practice, there was some talk about the NBA possibly looking deeper into the situation with the team at the forefront of tanking speculation. While there were rumors of the NBA sending doctors to verify the Jazz’s injury of Markkanen,<\/a> the latest reporting has cleared all that information up.<\/p>\n

Tony Jones of The Athletic had originally reported that the league is \u201csending independent doctors to verify.\u201d He would take to X, formerly Twitter, to say that won’t happen, but the NBA will monitor the results, though that is \u201cstandard practice.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cLauri Markkanen is undergoing his MRI, I\u2019m told, so the Jazz should have results coming. The NBA is evaluating the results, as standard practice. They did not send medical personnel to Utah. That part I got wrong. My apologies,\u201d Jones wrote on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Utah is one of several teams that have been accused of tanking, with even the franchise being fined $500,000, due to what the NBA said was \u201cmanagement of their rosters for recent games.\u201d That included the Jazz sitting key players like Markkanen, Jaren Jackson Jr., and Jusuf Nurkic in the fourth quarter when the games were close.<\/p>\n

Jazz’s Lauri Markkanen is awaiting MRI results\u00a0<\/p>\n

After some time, it would be revealed that Jackson and Nurkic would be out for the season with a knee and nose injury, respectively. Markkanen will get an MRI about the severity<\/a> of a right ankle and right hip injury, according to Kevin Renolds of The Salt Lake Tribune.<\/p>\n

\u201cUtah Jazz star Lauri Markkanen could miss some time after suffering an injury in practice on Wednesday,\u201d Reynolds wrote on Wednesday. \u201cMarkkanen will be evaluated for a right ankle and right hip injury, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. The 7-footer will get an MRI to determine the severity of the injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

Markkanen is averaging a team-high and a career-best 26.7 points to go along with 6.9 rebounds per game while shooting 47.7 percent from the field and 35.5 percent from three-point range. It remains to be seen what the MRI results say about Markkanen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Utah Jazz star Lauri Markkanen suffered an injury in Wednesday’s practice, there was some talk about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,976,6,14502,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-630709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-lauri-markkanen","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-injury","13":"tag-utah","14":"tag-utah-jazz","15":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116149565794959851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}